Wick-extractor.



l. B. LITTLE.

WICK EXTRACTOH.

APPALICATION FILED sPT.11,1918.

IVAN B. LITTLE, OF NORTH MANCHESTER, INDIANA.

WICK-EXTRACTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenten Mar. 4, 1919.

Application led Septembernll, 1918. Serial No. 253,572.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IVAN B. LITTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Manchester, in the county of Wabash and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wick- Extractors, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to an improved wick extractor or device for removing wicks from oil burning stoves and lamps.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a novel device which may be inserted between a tubular wick and its carrier to remove the same from between the walls of the burner of an oil stove or lamp, the device being designed to permit this operation with convenience, and especially where the wick is burned out and does not protrude to such an extent that it can be grasped in the ngers, or where the metal cage or webbing around the wick is mutilated or torn and sticks in the lamp burner. The device is also designed to obviate the use of button hooks or bent wires and to permit the removal of wicks without the necessity of bringing the fingers into contact with the same, the device being simple of construction and economical to produce.

With the above objects and others in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the novel features of construction combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described in the following specication and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim which are appended hereto.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, wherein similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a lamp burner andwick, with my improved wick extractor applied thereto as in operation,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved extractor, and

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary inside elevation of a wick with the invention applied thereto.

Referring to the drawings in detail my improved wick extractor is shown as comprising a U-shaped section of spring metal having a bight or connecting portion 10 and legs or shank portions 11, said member belng disposed in an inverted position. Mountedl on the bight portion 10 is a handle 12, preferably of wood or like material and provided with a bore 18 for this purpose axially ofthesame. A

The shank' portions or legs 11 are preferably sprung slightly outwardly, tending to separate or move in opposite directions and are preferably flat upon diametrically opposite sides, as indicated at 14 at spaced points from the bight portion 10, thereby tapering slightly to their free extremities. Adjacent to said extremities, said shank portions are provided with pointed ends 15 beveled outwardly to provide upwardly facing projections or shoulders 16. The flattened portions of the shanks obviouslyl serve to prevent turning of said shanks when engaged between the wick and perforated tubing hereinafter mentioned, thereby insuring proper engagement of the projections 16 in the perforations in said tubing and in this way materially facilitating the wick extracting operation.

In the use of the device, the shank portions are entended between the wick 17 and its perforated metal cage or webbing 18, and thereby removed from the burner designated by inner and outer sleeves 19 and 20, so that the shoulder portions or projections 16 will engage in the perforations of the cage at diametrically opposite sides, owing to the said arms or leg portions formed by the Shanks 11, springing outwardly. In this way, upward movement may be imparted to the handle and the wick thereby readily removed from the burner of the stove or lamp.

Y Thus, it will be unnecessary to employ button hooks, bent wires or the like and the operation may be carried on quickly and effectively whether the wicks are burnt out or not. Also, it will permit the removal of the wick in the metal cage should it get caught or stuck in the holder or burner, even if the wick is good and the metal webbing is torn, thereby permitting the wick and webbing to be repaired or cleaned and used again.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it is thought that a clear and comprehensive understanding of the construction, operation and advantages of my invention may be had, and while I have shown and described the device as embodying a speciic structure, I Vdesire that it be understood that such changes may he made in. said structure as do not' depart from the spirit and scope of the -prising a U -shaped member having outwardly springing flattened shank portions and outwardly disposed shoulders at the extremities of said shank portions.

2. A wick extractor for removing wicks mounted in perforated tubular carriers and f being also of tubular form, comprising a Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, vby v:arial-messing' 'the Commissioner of Patents, Y

section of "spring wire or the vlike-bent in U- shapeand having a bight portion, a handle lon said bigh-t portionand Shanks depending from said bight portion at'the extremities of the iatter, said Shanks tapering and having beveledV extremities formed with outwardly projecting shoulders, said shoulders being designed to engage in the perforations of the carrier when the shank portions are inserted between the wick and carrier.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature hereto. Y

IVAN B. LITTLE.

Washington, D. U. 

